A Mother Should Be Loved
A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for always punishing him more severely than his stepsibling.
Directed by Yasujirō Ozu
Written by: Kōgo Noda, Masao Arata, Tadao Ikeda
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